Sinossi
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820. Excerpt: ... vidence as one of the chief fruits of faith. It is hoped my countrywomen, generally eminent in virtue as in beauty, will cease to degrade themselves by such a silly and dangerous curiosity. If the Parisians will run after Moreau the conjuror, Mademoiselle Normand, and the Sibyl of the Chauss6e D'Antin, d la bonne Tieure. The foretelling by cards is a mere fragment of the old geomancy, and is, if possible, more absurd than any other mode. A game at cards will afford a more rational amusement, without the fatal effects of disagreeable presciences. LESSON XXXI. MARRIAGE. In our club calculation is regarded as the chief of all the sciences, and a copy of Cocker's Arithmetic always lies on the table. To calculate expenses and future contingencies is one of the most essential objects in life, and nothing can give a wise man more pain than to say, "I did not calculate upon this." A great secret is to abstract one's self from the present events, and to look back at them as if you were removed to the distance of a whole year. Upon this plan repentance is seldom bought, or at least does not cost so dear as Demosthenes expressed himself to Lais the courtesan. The most powerful of all the instincts of nature is an obstacle to this calculation in our youthful years, and the prescience of a family, and the consequent want of ways and means, is merged and absorbed in the fortitude of hope, and the impassioned flush of imagination. Fancy and Hope too soon will of themselves expire. The consolation of the poor, "When God sends mouths, he sends bread," is excellent, and even authorised by the beneficent Jeus, when he says that the Father-of all, who feeds even the little birds, will not refuse his supplies to a far more important part of the creation. Yet in too many famil...
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